Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Don’t try to change people’s politics, religion, or life path. All that is required is to help them clarify their values, center on their hearts, and then to see if their life actions are in alignment with both. See? Emotion, thought, and action all together in a singleline of light. Such alignment leads to awakening. Fractionating: acting one way, feeling another, acting a third…or numbing yourself to one of these aspects so that the other two can survive…is the road to hell.

All else is “just” technique or method. All technique and methodology must be in the service of awakening, or it is just dreaming…or worse, it is nightmare.

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About Me

For the last thirty years or so I’ve been a lecturer, coach, novelist and television writer. For the last forty years I’ve been involved variously in the martial arts, and for all my life I’ve studied and enjoyed yoga. Not that I worked at it as hard and honestly as I should have—I’d be a combination of BKS Iyengar and Bruce Lee if I had.
After publishing about three million words of science fiction (including the New York Times bestsellers The Legacy of Heorot and The Cestus Deception) and having about twenty hours of produced television shows (including The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Andromeda, and Stargate, as well as four episodes of the immortal Baywatch), I’ve got opinions on the writing life.
After earning black belts in Judo and Karate, and practicing the Indonesian art of Pentjak Silat Serak for the last fifteen, well, I have some opinions there, as well. And having struggled to live consciously since childhood...well, those opinions are probably strongest of all.